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For a work that has only a URL associated with it (particularly if it is entered manually), there are a number of places to enter it. If the URL is included as an identifier <common:external-id-type>uri</common:external-id-type>, it will be included in the /record summary view. If it is not included as an identifier, it will be included in the /work view as <work:url>. I'd like to ask that <work:url> be included in the summary view (or for work:url to be copied to identifier type uri) so as to avoid making multiple calls to pull back all possible identifiers for a given work.

For a work that has only a URL associated with it (particularly if it is entered manually), there are a number of places to enter it. If the URL is included as an identifier <common:external-id-type>uri</common:external-id-type>, it will be included in the /record summary view. If it is not included as an identifier, it will be included in the /work view as <work:url>. I'd like to ask that <work:url> be included in the summary view (or for work:url to be copied to identifier type uri) so as to avoid making multiple calls to pull back all possible identifiers for a given…

I have spent some time recently looking at adding metadata to my publication pages on my webpage that facilitate sharing on linkedin, google+, facebook, and twitter and that also provide extra information to google scholar and altmetrics.com. Altmetrics checks mendeley.com and mendeley.com lists my ORCID.

Further integration could be useful in 2 ways:
1) allowing for inclusion of ORCID for each author in markup for Google Scholar (google scholar supports Highwire Press markup of the form citiation_author, citation_title, etc.) -- an additional markup tag such as citation_ORCID (for example) could help to provide ORCID information to google scholar.
2) In regular google results (for example), http://schema.org provides a means to describe the semantics of page content. Perhaps as an extension to http://schema.org/Person could be contemplated? Or perhaps include http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3138-3521/as the value for the “url” or “sameAs” properties of Person as a standard way to include this information with the Person's who author a ScholarlyArticle?

I don't seem to be able to go back and add my ORCID to previously published papers, so I would like a way to add my ORCID to the markup
of my webpages about those papers.

I suggest that ORCID.org have conversations with other bodies (schema.org, for example) and make proposals about how the ORCID can be made available for use in search results, etc.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

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I have spent some time recently looking at adding metadata to my publication pages on my webpage that facilitate sharing on linkedin, google+, facebook, and twitter and that also provide extra information to google scholar and altmetrics.com. Altmetrics checks mendeley.com and mendeley.com lists my ORCID.

Further integration could be useful in 2 ways:
1) allowing for inclusion of ORCID for each author in markup for Google Scholar (google scholar supports Highwire Press markup of the form citiation_author, citation_title, etc.) -- an additional markup tag such as citation_ORCID (for example) could help to provide ORCID information to google scholar.
2)…

I am responsible for SafetyLit (short for safety literature). We were an ORCID launch partner.

Bachground: Although many journal publishers not accept or require an ORCID for each author with each manuscript submission, and these are often printed with the author affiliation; these ORCID IDs are not always available among the metadata for download. This is because personal bibliographic managemenrt software (EndNote, Mandeley, Zotero, etc.) do not capture ORCID IDs.

My need:
Is there a system available to enter a publication's DOI (say in CrossRef) and obtain each author's ORCID ID? This would be a boon to author name disambiguation within the SafetyLit database. There are many authors who have common names in their own language. Author names are included in article metadata with varying degrees of completeness. Even if there is currently no way to automate the obtaining of name to ORCID association, is there some way for this to be done by hand author-by-author, article DOI by DOI?

In a multidisciplinary field it is common to have several authors with identical names. The disambiguation problem in my SafetyLit database is monumental. Then there is the problem of authors who publish with initials only, name variants, etc. How is an author of a manuscript to comply with style guide requirements for full, complete author names (CMoS ¶14.72 or APA ¶6.27) without help from a consistent identifier and the inclusion of such things in a reference manager?

I am responsible for SafetyLit (short for safety literature). We were an ORCID launch partner.

Bachground: Although many journal publishers not accept or require an ORCID for each author with each manuscript submission, and these are often printed with the author affiliation; these ORCID IDs are not always available among the metadata for download. This is because personal bibliographic managemenrt software (EndNote, Mandeley, Zotero, etc.) do not capture ORCID IDs.

My need:
Is there a system available to enter a publication's DOI (say in CrossRef) and obtain each author's ORCID ID? This would be a boon to author name disambiguation…

In the situation described, it seems that the DOI agency, e.g. Crossref, would be the best system to consult.

When a publisher has submitted an article to Crossref, and included in its metadata is the author’s ORCID iD which was authenticated via OAuth during submission, then that ORCID iD will be available when you query Crossref with that DOI.

With regards to reference managers, this is a question that was raised by the working group on the display of iDs in articles. If you’d like further information on this, please contact support@orcid.org.

Finally, with regards to compliance with style guides: in the case of creating a citation of another published work, is it not the name of the author as listed on the title page or article as it is that name that is associated with that publication? Otherwise, one may have misunderstood the final paragraph of the query in this regard.

Warm regards, ORCID Community

Thanks for your query, and our apologies for the delay.

In the situation described, it seems that the DOI agency, e.g. Crossref, would be the best system to consult.

When a publisher has submitted an article to Crossref, and included in its metadata is the author’s ORCID iD which was authenticated via OAuth during submission, then that ORCID iD will be available when you query Crossref with that DOI.

With regards to reference managers, this is a question that was raised by the working group on the display of iDs in articles. If you’d like further information on this, please contact support@orcid.org.

Finally, with regards to compliance with style guides: in the case of creating a citation of another published work, is…

The ORCID Statistics page needs immediate attention. ORCID should be able to provide the numbers by category (funder, publisher, research institution, academy, society, etc.), by region and country at any time. With a number as small as less than 4 or 5 hundred it is not a difficult task at all.

Currently, publication dates can only be entered from the supplied pull-down menu. It would be better to allow manual entry also to deal with two situations: (1) forthcoming/in-press publications that are scheduled for future years (not available in the pull-down menu); and (2) multi-volume works published over a period of years, e.g.: 2000-2007 or 2000- [for ongoing works].

This is a fine idea, but isn’t something that we presently have the capacity to work toward at the moment. We’re going to mark it as under review, so that we can consider it as an improvement after our current release cycle for version 2.0 of our API.

Thanks for this suggestion. We’re looking at adding contributor fields for both works and funding items in the ORCID record soon. We’re working with CReDit to use their taxonomy for roles and will be reviewing what contributor roles should be added from their list shortly.

We like your suggestion of offering a way to run this export in the user interface as well, but we will not be able to work on that right now. Our current priority is getting information into ORCID records and that’s where we’re focusing our development.